Hi, it's possible to make MicroSD card accessible for all users? Currenly it's visible only by the Owner, is this a kind of ad hoc android behavior or can be changed?
Mediapad M5 32Gb, Android Pie 9.0.1.190
.. I guess it's still not possible .. (?)
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Hi,
I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (GT-P5110) which runs on Android ICS (4.0.3). I also bought 32Gb Class 10 Samsung microSD card as the memory could be extended up to 32 gig. But soon I realized that the external SD gets mounted as read only. So it doesn't allow anything to be copied. I then read in some forums and realized that a permission needs to be changed for which the device needs to be rooted. I didn't want to root my device so decide to copy data into it through my laptop running on Windows 7.
The problem is, I'm able to copy the data into the micro SD card from a laptop using a SD card adaptor. But what ever I'm copying in my laptop doesn't show up when I insert the microSD into my tablet. It just disappears!
Has anybody faced this problem? Is there a conflict in the file system between windows and android (non FAT16/32 or NTFS) which is creating the problem?
Any suggestion to overcome this will be helpful!
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-hsp
I'm using a xperia z3 tablet compact since a couple of days. Now that I've added a secondary user (multi-user), I'm struggling with SD card access.
Both users have full access to the SD card! Which I don't want.
I've changed the camera settings, so that all fotos are saved on external storage. But now all users are saving the fotos at the same place!
I was only able to find threads that only the first user has access to SD card and all others don't have access at all... And according to some android documentation each user should have it's own space on the SD card (sorry, I'm not allowed to post outside links yet).
How can I use this multi-user setup with isolated external storage for each user?
I've updated to lollipop 5.0.2 and still have the same issue. All users have access to the sd card. Even the new guest account has access to photos taken by the main account!
Did nobody else face this issue?
same problem on my note 8. did you find any solution ?
No, I wasn't able to find a solution.
no reply since 2017, so I guess still no solution ..
I have an ASUS ZenPad 3S 10 (Z500M) tablet that I tried to use with a SanDisk Ultra 128GB MicroSDXC card configured with adoptable storage under android 6.0. It hasn't been a success. I install a ton of games with large obb files from my googleplay account to it, and though it works fine for a time, after a while, I get strange errors and can't write or delete from the MicroSD card or transfer files to it via USB data cable anymore. A reboot fixes it, but only temporarily. I'm thinking it's either bugs in adoptable storage with 6.0 or the size of the card. Anyone have success with a similar setup?
I'd like to try switching over to formatting the Sandisk as external storage, but since my ZenPad 3S 10 can't be rooted, I have no way to run obb files off of it with apps that allow you to do this. Is there any possible way to change the default installation folder of android games and apps to a MicroSDXC card on the ASUS ZenPad 3S 10 (Z500M)? I have this sneaking suspicion that adoptable storage is just not stable and reliable with 128GB microsd cards though I'm open to the idea that it's something else causing this issue
So... I guess it is absolutely, totally, completely and utterly impossible to run Android games and obb files off of a 128GB microSDXC card formatted as portable external SD storage on an unrooted android device under MarshMallow. Not even the best of the best of the most genius android hackers has found a solution apparently. Alas, I have no recourse *insert the saddest emoji face you can find here*
JackOfOwls said:
So... I guess it is absolutely, totally, completely and utterly impossible to run Android games and obb files off of a 128GB microSDXC card formatted as portable external SD storage on an unrooted android device under MarshMallow. Not even the best of the best of the most genius android hackers has found a solution apparently. Alas, I have no recourse *insert the saddest emoji face you can find here*
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How's this going for you now that Nougat 7.0 is available for the 3S 10?
This is why moat oem removed that option from their devices. The way Android works doesn't really work with apps on sdcards and since Google removed all sdcard code from Android each oem uses their own code and it doesn't always work right.
I can somehow confirm this problem - I'm using a 128GB SanDisk microSD in my Moto G4 Plus (Android 7.0) and it works fine for some time. But occasionally all apps that are installed on the SD card get "corrupted" and force close as soon as you open them. Uninstalling and reinstalling the apps from Play Store solves the problem (reboot / cache wipe / etc. does not in my case). Logcat showed some permission denied errors, so I'm guessing it's a similar problem. Unfortunally it seems like there is almost no discussion about such an issue, if you Google it only stuff like "how to unofficially enable adoptable storage using ADB". Have you tried it with a smaller SD card like 64GB?
TheXorg said:
I can somehow confirm this problem - I'm using a 128GB SanDisk microSD in my Moto G4 Plus (Android 7.0) and it works fine for some time. But occasionally all apps that are installed on the SD card get "corrupted" and force close as soon as you open them. Uninstalling and reinstalling the apps from Play Store solves the problem (reboot / cache wipe / etc. does not in my case). Logcat showed some permission denied errors, so I'm guessing it's a similar problem. Unfortunally it seems like there is almost no discussion about such an issue, if you Google it only stuff like "how to unofficially enable adoptable storage using ADB". Have you tried it with a smaller SD card like 64GB?
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No, I haven't. I have heard though that smaller MicroSD cards i.e. 32GB work much more reliably with adoptable storage but haven't tested it myself.
I can confirm that on my s4 mini the adoptable storage runs stable with a 64 GB card - however, I face one nasty issue: after each reboot, the app icons disappear from the launcher. I guess this has to do with too slow mounting of the sd card by the system, however this is annoying. Does anybody have a solution for this? Have LineageOS 14.1 installed.
Hello! The tablet doesn't support moving apps to sd card but I thought as it is with Nougat it will allow me to set sd card as Internal. But according to this post (see the last replies) Huawei's Mediapad with 4.1 (EMUI) and above doesn't support this anymore. Is this true? Also if I don't set as Internal but set as Default Location (this video), will this allow me to install apps on sd card and is there a possibility I to lose my current apps which are now on Internal storage? Nougat with EMUI 5.1.2.
The tablet is non rooted and I don't plan to root it.
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Hello! The tablet doesn't support moving apps to sd card but I thought as it is with Nougat it will allow me to set sd card as Internal. But according to (see the last replies) Huawei's Mediapad with 4.1 (EMUI) and above doesn't support this anymore. Is this true? Also if I don't set as Internal but set as Default Location, will this allow me to install apps on sd card and is there a possibility I to lose my current apps which are now on Internal storage? Nougat with EMUI 5.1.2.
The tablet is non rooted and I don't plan to root it.
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Is this still an issue?
Setting SD card as default location doesn't allow you to install apps on the SD card as such, although some app data are then automatically saved there. Changing the default location shouldn't affect any previously installed apps.
Another option, which I myself haven't tried yet, is in the developer's options (activated by pressing the build number 7 times) - the option before last overrides certain values in order to allow apps to use external storage. Worth a try!
Thank you for the information but when the option is pressed in order to turn it on it does return the way it...greyed out.
Any other possible solution.
There is a way to know which SD cards have been inserted in an Android smartphone over time? For example, today there is a 32Gb card, in the past was an 8Gb card been inserted ?
I don't think there is a way to tell that without some of the tools the oem has. Not even sure if the device holds a record of that.